N. CAROLINA: Movie theater bacteria could cause illness, infection - (WCNC)
November 27, 2007 – 7:42 pmCharlotte, N.C. — WCNC Investigators bought tickets at a half dozen Charlotte area movie theaters. Then we took our hidden cameras inside, along with a black light to locate stains and other foreign material, and swabs to take samples. We sealed up everything we found in test tubes, and sent them off to a laboratory near Raleigh.
Now we’ve got the lab reports back - and the truth - about how dirty those movies really are.
Dr. Steven Keener was quoted as saying, “If you worked in an auditorium and you wiped the seats down with bleach every day, three days later these things would all be back. You can’t eliminate them from nature.
Keener is the health director for Mecklenburg County, and he says most of the germs WCNC found in most of the movie theaters we tested probably won’t make you sick. But there were some exceptions such as the […]
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